Abstract Background The starry puffer fish (Arothron stellatus, Anonymous, 1798) is a poisonous tetradontidae fish inhabiting the Red sea.The skin constitutes an important defense against any external effects.The study aims to characterize the dorso-ventral skin of the juvenile and the adult starry puffer fish using light and scanning electron micr

BACKGROUND: Ectopic pregnancy is the implantation of an embryo at sites outside the uterine cavity.With advances in medicine, non-surgical (medical) therapeutic approaches had been introduced in the management of ectopic pregnancy, and they are gaining wide clinical application.Of such medical therapeutic approaches is the use of methotrexate.The u

Because of logistical constraints little previous information exists on ivory gulls (Pagophila eburnea) in the waters around Svalbard and the east coast of Greenland in late winter/early spring.The Swedish Arctic Ocean 2002 expedition investigated these areas at that time of year and in this paper I report on the observations of ivory gulls made du

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Pheromone communication relies on highly specific signals sent and received between members of the same species.However, how u11-200ps pheromone specificity is determined in moth olfactory circuits remains unknown.Here we provide the first glimpse into the mechanism that generates this specificity in Ostrinia nubilalis.In Ostrinia nubilalis it was